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Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by Spivak »

icelancer wrote: post #63
user5994461 wrote: post #28

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>>> it provides a good customer experience: good prices Amazon had not offered better prices than the main brick-and-mortar shops for a long long time. Try comparing the items you see in shops with the same on Amazon and be Amazed. The best are small household items. Sellers buy from Ikea and resell on Amazon. Sometimes customers find out and they post reviews you can imagine, "OMG this is the £4 cutlery pack from Ik…

Huh? AmazonBasics cabling is significantly cheaper than Best Buy's white label brand Insignia 99% of the time.

And Amazon is aggressive at price matching so basically any deal that you find somewhere else on the internet will get beaten a few hours after it’s posted.

That seems to be why so many retailers have switched to “discount in the cart” models.

Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by jhbadger »

solitus wrote: post #92

The amount of Quebec bashing on this thread (and hacker news in general) ironically highlights the reason why Quebec has been so protective and defensive of its culture; get bashed and put down enough and obviously you'll turn a little bitter towards your bullies.

And also turn into a bully themselves. Quebec isn't very nice to its First Nation minorities (who often have their own non-French languages), nor are they very nice to their native English speakers in the Eastern Townships.

Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by jefft255 »

thbr99 wrote: post #90
jefft255 wrote: post #81

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These two issues are orthogonal. But thank you for taking the time to do your usual Québec bashing which you always seem to love doing when you get the chance.

I am a part of a group (immigrant) which Québec CAQ politicians likes to bash/scapegoat when they get the chance. So let me bash them here when I get the chance. Thank you for noticing and sorry if you got butt hurt being a Quebecois. Québec must learn to walk before they run. Have you seen their Panier Bleu site ? I might as well use yellow pages instead of that.

Yes of course being of the HN crowd I’m not impressed by the website. You know, all quebeckers share the passion of complaining about our government ;)

Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by creato »

andreilys wrote: post #69
mgbmtl wrote: post #24

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As you mention, shopping on Amazon has become pretty horrible. I often shop local (faster, more convenient), but discoverability is a big problem, and I hate having to phone to enquire about their open hours, because their Google listing is never up to date.

I’m confused as to how local is faster/more convenient, yet it requires you to pick up a phone due to an outdated listing? With Amazon, if I see I’m running low on rice, I can say “Alexa order rice” and I get rice on my doorstep in 3 days based on my previous rice order history. Doesn’t get more convenient than that.

I cannot imagine trusting food ordered off of Amazon, let alone trusting it to fill an order without verifying what it actually ordered (listing, quantity, etc.).

Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by throwvatars5 »

solitus wrote: post #92

The amount of Quebec bashing on this thread (and hacker news in general) ironically highlights the reason why Quebec has been so protective and defensive of its culture; get bashed and put down enough and obviously you'll turn a little bitter towards your bullies.

Quebec earned it over the course of years.

Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by nickff »

mgbmtl wrote: post #31
igrekel wrote: post #29

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Most of the issues and why a lot of things are not offered in Quebec is rarely because of bill 101 or language in general. It is not difficult to get something translated and offer it in a binlingual version. Heck, countries with much smaller populations get a localized version of international products. Usually, at least when i was in insurance, it is because of legal and regulatory reason. While the law systems in…

There are also stronger consumer direction laws. Good for us, but yeah, more legal checks to do :)

Consumer protection laws are only good for the citizenry if and when the regulations protect the consumer more than additional competition would.

Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by sunkenvicar »

thbr99 wrote: post #73
ckdarby wrote: post #4

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> first step It starts with this and then could become if you're not apart of the list you're going to have "more problems". What other province is doing this? In my opinion this makes it more complicated already. It always starts with a first step, Bill 101 exists to protect the French culture. Now people actively use it as an exploit against companies. I've known people who use Bill 101 to have documents provided i…

I got the Covid-19 care guide in my mail box by the Québec government in French only because of Bill 101. Language politics trumps even in case of emergency communications in Québec.

ROC got it bilingual from the feds.

Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by selimthegrim »

igrekel wrote: post #29
ckdarby wrote: post #4

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> first step It starts with this and then could become if you're not apart of the list you're going to have "more problems". What other province is doing this? In my opinion this makes it more complicated already. It always starts with a first step, Bill 101 exists to protect the French culture. Now people actively use it as an exploit against companies. I've known people who use Bill 101 to have documents provided i…

Most of the issues and why a lot of things are not offered in Quebec is rarely because of bill 101 or language in general. It is not difficult to get something translated and offer it in a binlingual version. Heck, countries with much smaller populations get a localized version of international products. Usually, at least when i was in insurance, it is because of legal and regulatory reason. While the law systems in…

That's never stopped companies in Louisiana.

Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by sunkenvicar »

amiga_500 wrote: post #66
betaby wrote: post #60

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That's a very Canadian reply - to compare with the worst examples, especially US ones. Not too many 3rd world countries can 'beat' US in homeless situation.

I've cited the USA and UK, two western, English speaking countries.

Your argument is not persuasive because those are different countries from Canada.
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